Revelations of Divine Love · 86 of 127 · tr. Grace Warrack
Chapter LVIb
For only by our Reason we may not profit, but if we have evenly therewith Mind and Love: nor only in our Nature-Ground that we have in God we may not be saved but if we have, coming of the same Ground, Mercy and Grace.
For of these three working all together we receive all our Goodness.
Of the which the first [gifts] are goods of Nature: for in our First making God gave us as full goods as we might receive in our spirit alone, —and also greater goods; but His foreseeing purpose in His endless wisdom willed that we should be double.
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◆Divine Providencetheology
Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.
The passage explicitly mentions God's 'foreseeing purpose in His endless wisdom' as the reason for the dual nature of human goods.
All passages →◆Emotional Epistemologysoteriology
The doctrine that emotions constitute a valid and necessary mode of knowing reality, complementing or surpassing intellectual cognition.
The author argues that 'Reason' alone is insufficient for profit and must be accompanied by 'Mind and Love,' positioning love as a necessary mode of knowing.
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